Jun 24 2008
This morning 23andMe bravely went were no other personal genome service has gone before – Second Life!
Bertalan Mesko of scienceroll.com kindly arranged for us (ErinC and joyce) to give a presentation about our company on Second Nature, an island operated in Second Life by the Nature Publishing Group. We talked about the basics [...]
Jun 13 2008
Roy King is a clinical psychiatrist at Stanford University. He’s also a scholar who uses genetics and archaeology to figure out how agriculture spread through Anatolia and the Mediterranean region of Europe more than 10,000 years ago.
Now Roy has another genetic puzzle to consider – himself. With the help of 23andMe, he can now see [...]
Jun 06 2008
If you could only do one thing to this sentence, what would it be?
Can you explain why there’s no gene for Crohn’s disease?
If you know the answers to these questions, we want you to know this: 23andMe is looking to hire an editor who is adept with scientific copy and concepts. The Science Editor will [...]
May 15 2008
Last weekend 23andMe participated in the Girl Scouts’ Golden Gate Bridging at Crissy Field in San Francisco.
This annual event celebrates middle school girls who are graduating from Junior Girl Scouts to Cadette Girl Scouts. To symbolize this transition, the girls walk across the Golden Gate Bridge. More than 7,000 girls from eight states were [...]
Apr 29 2008
This woman shares 99.5% of her DNA with Lilly Mendel.
Team 23andMe likes games – Wii tennis and Segway polo are big here. So are friendly wagers over a new employee’s ACTN3 genotype, or whether a given Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation will converge during our lifetimes.
So in the spirit of friendly competition, we’re starting the [...]
Apr 15 2008
Last week 23andMe participated in the Stanford Cool Product Expo, sponsored by Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. We were pleased to meet a steady stream of curious visitors to our corner booth, which was situated between the manufacturer of a bike you pedal like an elliptical trainer and a toolmaker with an innovative solution [...]
Mar 19 2008
Part of my role as the ‘People Manager’ here at 23andMe is leading recruiting efforts. I take a lot of calls from people who are interested in science careers. While many of those calls are about specific positions, an equal number are from people who just want to know what it’s like to work here.
Most [...]
Feb 06 2008
Rate cuts, market meltdowns and global warming may have ruled the day at this year’s World Economic Forum – but spitting ruled the night.
Every evening in Davos scholars, celebs and politicos swarmed around our booth in a hallway of the main conference hotel, where 23andMe offered WEF attendees a free look at their DNA. All [...]
Jan 21 2008
In the two months that 23andMe has been in business, we’ve had our fair share of media coverage. We’ve been in newspapers and magazines, on TV and the radio.
But more than anything else, we’ve been blogged about. Over the last few weeks the comments, compliments and criticisms of bloggers have often enlightened, sometimes amused [...]
Dec 04 2007
A Spit Party is kind of like a Tupperware Party, only the plastic containers are smaller and they’re not for leftovers. 23andMe held the first one a few days after our launch in November, and we’re gearing up for many more in 2008.
What happens at a Spit Party? So glad you asked. There’s mingling, of [...]
